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1. Save the Date! Friday, March 25, 2011 Keynote Speaker Dr. Rebecca MacDonald, Ph.D. BCBA Dr. Rebecca MacDonald is a Licensed Psychologist in Massachusetts and a Board Certified Behavior Analyst who serves as the Director of Intensive Instructional Early Childhood Autism Program at the New England Center for Children. She is an Adjunct Professor at Northeastern University, Western New England College and in the Special Education Department at Simmons College. Rebecca received her doctorate in Developmental and Child Psychology from the University of Kansas in 1983. Dr. MacDonald began at The New England Center for Children as the Clinical Director in 1983. She then taught for three years in the Graduate School of Education at Simmons College in Boston (1992-1995). In 1995 she returned to the New England Center for Children in her current position. Rebecca has presented her research at numerous conferences over the past twenty years and published studies that have appeared in the Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis, Education and Treatment for Children, Research in Developmental Disabilities, and Behavioral Interventions. In addition, she has authored a number of book chapters and developed a web-based curriculum for teaching play to children with autism using video modeling. She has been the recipient of both federal and private grants to support her research, including the Organization for Autism Research and the National Institute of Health. Dr. MacDonald’s research interests currently include; assessing and teaching joint attention, teaching play and social reciprocity to children with autism using video modeling, and measuring clinical outcomes of early intensive behavior intervention. • Credits Available • BCBA • BCABA Queens College Developmental Disabilities Conference Queens College, CUNY 65-30 Kissena Blvd. Flushing, NY, 11367 email: QCDDconference@gmail.com website: http://qcpages.qc.cuny.edu/Psychology/